Five Oaks: A Novel

In the Arkansas mountains three generations of fiercely determined young women are poised for self-discovery in a decades-spanning novel about the bonds of family and secrets. Spending summer away from home for the first time fifteen-year-old Wren Pritchard and her younger sister Sylvie arrive at Five Oaks their grandparents’ Arkansas lake house. As it was for their grandmother and mother before them it’s a place for coming of age first love triumphs and failures and keeping secrets. This year it’s Wren’s end-of-girlhood season. And Sylvie vows to keep all her secrets: Wren slipping away in the middle of the night the boy on the dock racing with him on the dark back roads and slipping quietly into bed before dawn carrying the scent of adventure. And still as Wren’s behavior begins changing and the moonlit escapes become more daring Sylvie holds her tongue. Even when it feels like Wren is speeding toward disaster. Then one night Wren doesn’t come h